Code 911: Feb. 28, 2007

PORT ORCHARD — Two people were arrested in separate assault incidents at a downtown Bay Street bar, according to the Port Orchard Police Department.

At about 12:30 a.m. Saturday, an officer was flagged down by Makos security, who had a 25-year-old Suquamish man on the ground after he started "swinging punches" at the guards, reports said.

The man had apparently been denied access to the bar for being too intoxicated, and he "immediately started swinging punches," according to officers. It took both security and bar patrons to subdue the man.

When officers tried to arrest him, he resisted by "yanking himself away and twisting violently side to side." A Taser was applied multiple times to get him into the patrol car and again as officers brought him into the Kitsap County jail.

The next morning at about 1 a.m., a 25-year-old Kent man, apparently upset "with the amount of change that he had received after purchasing a drink," threw a shot glass at a womans face inside the bar. She required four stitches and four of her teeth were cracked, reports said.

After a "struggle" to make the arrest, officers took the man to the Kitsap County jail.

PO Man Gets Four Years for Burglary

PORT ORCHARD — A Port Orchard man received a four-year sentence last week in Kitsap County Superior Court for burglarizing a South Kitsap home last October and threatening the homeowner with his own shotgun, according to court documents.

Detectives reports said the homeowner was confronted as he arrived home at about 9 a.m. Oct. 23 by Mercer, who "racked a round" in the shotgun and told him to back off "or he would blow his head off." Mercer and another man had used a "battering ram" to get inside the house, though the homeowner told deputies it was unlocked.

The shotgun, a BB pistol, a rifle, a knife, a digital camera and a power drill were missing from the mans home.

That burglary investigation is one of many the Sheriffs Office believes is a part of a

crime ring that includes 14 total suspects and more than $100,000 worth of property. Detectives say the motive was to get money to purchase methamphetamine.

possession of cocaine after he was stopped in his car by police, according to Bremerton police reports.

The man was driving west on Rogers Street near Lafayette Avenue when an officer pulled him over for allegedly running a stop sign. Because his license was suspended, officers searched the mans car and found a substance believed to be cocaine. The suspect also told officers while en route to jail that he had a bag of "dope" in his underwear, reports said.

All told, the man had about 1.7 grams of cocaine, officers said. He was taken to the Kitsap County jail.

Man Stocks Up on Heroin in Seattle

NORTH KITSAP — A 33-year-old Port Townsend man was allegedly found in possession of heroin, cocaine and marijuana while riding in a car early Tuesday, according to Kitsap County Sheriffs Office reports.

A deputy stopped a mini-van driving west on Highway 104 at about 12:30 a.m. and a passenger was seen lying in the backseat, deputies said. The man was found to have a felony warrant for dangerous drugs and a misdemeanor warrant for theft and was arrested, according to reports.

The man told deputies theyd find a paper bag in the car that contained some needles and "a little heroin," reports said. When deputies opened the bag, they found needles and a small metal tin with black tar heroin stuck to the inside, reports said.

When another person stepped outside the van, a black bundle of suspected narcotics fell out, which was later determined to be cocaine, deputies said. A "black shoulder zip-up bag" was found containing more suspected heroin in small bundles that "smelled of vinegar," deputies said. A plastic bag of marijuana was also found.

The Port Townsend man told deputies that hed bought the heroin in Seattle for $300, and that he has to buy that much "about every two weeks because it takes so long to get to Seattle from Port Townsend."

He was booked into jail for drug possession and the warrants for his arrest.

Kitsap Sun staff

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